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Emerging Scholars Network
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Приєднався 11 сер 2020
The Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) is a national network within InterVarsity’s Graduate & Faculty Ministries which supports those on the academic pathway as they work out how their academic vocation serves God and others. We encourage and equip undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and early career faculty as they navigate each stage of their academic vocation and transition to the next step in or beyond the academy.
ESN Conversation: Diary of an Old Soul with Timothy Larsen
In 1880, the prolific author George MacDonald self-published a long poem in book form as a gift for his friends. He called it, in full, A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul. It contained a new seven-line stanza for each day of the calendar year, written as prayers expressing MacDonald's longings, struggles, and joys in everyday life.
The Diary was originally printed with a blank page facing every page of poetry so that readers could supplement MacDonald's diary with their own. This feature in particular, along with the spiritual wisdom and literary artistry of the text itself, was beloved by C. S. Lewis, who gave a copy of the book to his future wife, Joy Davidman, as a Christmas gift in 1952.
Wheaton historian Timothy Larsen has written an introduction and annotated a new edition of this work for InterVarsity Press that retains the blank pages. He will introduce us to George MacDonald, the Diary, and this new edition.
The Diary was originally printed with a blank page facing every page of poetry so that readers could supplement MacDonald's diary with their own. This feature in particular, along with the spiritual wisdom and literary artistry of the text itself, was beloved by C. S. Lewis, who gave a copy of the book to his future wife, Joy Davidman, as a Christmas gift in 1952.
Wheaton historian Timothy Larsen has written an introduction and annotated a new edition of this work for InterVarsity Press that retains the blank pages. He will introduce us to George MacDonald, the Diary, and this new edition.
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ESN Conversation: Awakening to Justice with A.G Miller & Douglas Strong
Переглядів 202 місяці тому
In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twen...
ESN Conversation: What Hath Darwin to Do with Scripture
Переглядів 2482 місяці тому
Believe it or not, the book of Genesis might have been the most Darwinian text in the ancient world. And throughout the opening books of Scripture, we find ideas that would also become prominent insights of the biologist Charles Darwin interlaced with the Bible's one-of-a-kind origin story. Biblical scholar Dru Johnson calls us beyond typical creation-versus-evolution debates to explore the con...
ESN Conversation: Beyond the Clinical Hour with James Sells and Amy Trout
Переглядів 253 місяці тому
The global mental health crisis is growing faster than our existing mental health care system can address. Psychologists James Sells and Amy Trout and journalist Heather Sells know firsthand the urgency of the situation-but they have also witnessed creative partnerships between churches and mental health professionals springing up across the United States. In this book, they call clinicians, st...
ESN Conversation: Beyond Ethnic Loneliness with Prasanta Verma
Переглядів 554 місяці тому
Majority white American culture has historically marginalized people of color, who at times feel invisible and alienated and at other times are traumatized by oppression and public discrimination. An Indian American immigrant who grew up in white Southern culture, Prasanta Verma names and sheds light on the realities of ethnic loneliness. She unpacks the exhausting effects of cultural isolation...
ESN Conversation: Wood Between the Worlds with Brian Zahnd
Переглядів 1295 місяців тому
Everything about the gospel message leads to the cross, and proceeds from the cross. But it would be a mistake to think we could sum up the significance of the crucifixion in a tidy sentence or two. Brian Zahnd reminds us that the meaning of the cross is multifaceted. Just as gazing through the eyepiece of a kaleidoscope reveals a new geometric image with every turn, Zahnd helps us see that the...
ESN Conversation Witness in the Academy with Rick Mattson
Переглядів 535 місяців тому
Grad students and faculty may wonder if witness to Christ is possible or appropriate. Rick Mattson offers training in evangelism for InterVarsity Grad and Faculty groups and believes it is. What can help is knowing that God has already been at work, knowing what our part is, and how we may accompany others on their journey to faith as God works in their lives. Rick will engage with us around th...
ESN Conversation: Land of My Sojourn with Mike Cosper
Переглядів 3366 місяців тому
"In the years since leaving local church ministry, I've devoted an enormous amount of time and resources to examining the church's often troubled witness, its ongoing crisis of leadership, and the epidemic of narcissism, abuse, and cover-up that has continued to emerge year after year." Mike Cosper is a writer and podcaster for Christians in a post-Christian world. He's the director of podcasti...
ESN Conversation: A Non-Anxious Life with with Alan Fadling
Переглядів 677 місяців тому
Anxiety leads us to succumb to fear and fight peace. Anxious living is a distortion of good motives, blocking the clarity of stillness and rest. Alan Fadling has also felt mastered by worry, but he brings counsel on how to learn a better way and who to look to for it: Jesus, "the ultimate non-anxious presence." He constructs a posture from which we can rest more deeply, live more fully, and lea...
ESN Conversations: "Christmas" with Emily Hunter McGowin
Переглядів 698 місяців тому
At the first Christmas, God exchanged the glories of divinity for the vulnerability of human existence, uniting himself to us in order to unite us to God. In this short volume, priest and theologian Emily Hunter McGowin invites us into the church's celebration of that great exchange, in all its theological and liturgical splendor. Emily Hunter McGowin (PhD, University of Dayton) is associate pr...
ESN Conversation: Rethinking the Police with Daniel Reinhardt
Переглядів 1069 місяців тому
In Rethinking the Police, Reinhardt lays out a history of policing in the United States, showing how it developed a culture of dehumanization, systemic racism, and brutality. But Reinhardt doesn't stop there: he offers a new model of policing based not in dominance and control but in a culture of servant leadership, with concrete suggestions for procedural justice and community policing. Daniel...
ESN Conversation: What Jesus Intended with Bishop Todd D. Hunter
Переглядів 879 місяців тому
After four decades of ministry, Anglican bishop Todd Hunter is no stranger to betrayal and pain in the church. Still, he has hope. He believes more than ever that Jesus is who the world needs and that Jesus has plans for his followers. Bishop Todd D. Hunter (DMin, George Fox University) leads Churches for the Sake of Others (C4SO), a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, and was the ...
ESN Conversation: The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism with Daniel Hummel
Переглядів 67710 місяців тому
In The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism, Daniel G. Hummel illuminates how dispensationalism, despite often being dismissed as a fringe end-times theory, shaped Anglo-American evangelicalism and the larger American cultural imagination. Daniel G. Hummel is a historian of US religion and the author of Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations. He works at Upper House, a ...
ESN Conversation: More Than Things with Paul Louis Metzger
Переглядів 8711 місяців тому
We live in a culture of commodification. People are too often defined by what they do or own; they're treated as means to an end or cogs in a machine. In a world dominated by things, Paul Louis Metzger argues, we must work hard to account for one another's personhood.
ESN Conversation: Nourish Narratives with Jennifer Holberg
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We make sense of our world, pattern our lives, and reflect on what is ultimately significant through language and the words that compose our stories. In "Nourishing Narratives," writer and professor Jennifer Holberg engages with words from the likes of Dante, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Flannery O'Connor, and Marilynne Robinson, while also offering some of her own stories to reflect on the importanc...
ESN Conversation: All God's Children with Terence Lester
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ESN Conversation: All God's Children with Terence Lester
ESN Conversation: Being Gods Image with Carmen Imes
Переглядів 112Рік тому
ESN Conversation: Being Gods Image with Carmen Imes
ESN Conversation: On Getting Out of Bed with Alan Noble
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ESN Conversation: On Getting Out of Bed with Alan Noble
ESN Conversation: Non-Toxic Masculinity
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ESN Conversation: Non-Toxic Masculinity
2023 Christian Scholars Foundation Legacy Grant Workshop
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2023 Christian Scholars Foundation Legacy Grant Workshop
ESN Conversation Following Jesus in a Warming World
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ESN Conversation Following Jesus in a Warming World
ESN Conversation: First Nations Version/A Just Passion with Terry Wildman
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ESN Conversation: First Nations Version/A Just Passion with Terry Wildman
ESN Conversation: Finding Mentors with Julie Dahl & Jeff Hardin
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ESN Conversation: Finding Mentors with Julie Dahl & Jeff Hardin
ESN Conversation: Look Closely - Science, Faith, and the Church
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ESN Conversation: Look Closely - Science, Faith, and the Church
ESN Conversation: Learning Humility with Richard Foster and Brenda Quinn
Переглядів 123Рік тому
ESN Conversation: Learning Humility with Richard Foster and Brenda Quinn
ESN Conversation: The Man Born to Be King with Kathryn Wehr
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ESN Conversation: The Man Born to Be King with Kathryn Wehr
ESN Conversation: The Thrill of Orthodoxy with Trevin Wax
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ESN Conversation: The Thrill of Orthodoxy with Trevin Wax
ESN Conversation: Dawn, A Proton's Tale of All That Came to Be
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ESN Conversation: Dawn, A Proton's Tale of All That Came to Be
ESN Conversation: The Religion of American Greatness with Paul D. Miller
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ESN Conversation: The Religion of American Greatness with Paul D. Miller
ESN Conversation: A Supreme Love, The Music of Jazz and the Hope of the Gospel with William Edgar
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ESN Conversation: A Supreme Love, The Music of Jazz and the Hope of the Gospel with William Edgar
what makes the Genesis story one of a kind? There are numerous similar myths from many cultures before and after.
Most (if not all) of its motifs and action are borrowed or inspired by earlier stories.
Darwin had nothing to do with scripture. In the mid nineteenth century the physical or elemental was extrapolated to be the nature of, not just physical reality, but all of reality. It was likely Darwin never intended for this to happen. In the cusp of a quantum age all of us, with the exception of hardcore materialists, know there is more to reality than the elements. There is consciousness, mind, various energies deriving from the three forces, electromagnetism and magnetism. What did Darwin know about any of this: zero. He was a biologist who studied and knew something about biology, and that was it. What does modern science know about any of this: zero. Advances have been made in understanding the gross physical and treating diseases, which is good, but that is all. In the East they focused more on internal reality and had a more expansive knowledge of consciousness and energy than was the case in the West. In the West the focus was on the external world. In the cusp of a quantum age and the new physics even materialists must see that reducing reality to what is elemental is no longer possible. If the elemental gave rise to consciousness that would be truly remarkable. That is why today philosophers are faced with ‘the hard problem of consciousness.’ It is doubtful they will ever resolve it, until they are ready to concede that it is fundamental.
Ephesians 3:2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: They reject the word dispensation entirely, even though it is found at least 4 times in the KJV along with many other allusions to the word dispensation. They are heaping to themselves teachers according to their own lusts. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Thank you! I learned a lot from this presentation. As an African-American Christian, Christian nationalism is not something that I know a lot about, and Paul Miller helped me to understand the mindset behind this movement. I do wish he had talked about his own journey that started in 2015/2016 away from Christain nationalism. That would've been very insightful to hear. Thanks again!
Which church / denomination specifically will be totally kosher? Or will it be to rank faith organizations according to ... some religious stated standard? No details in this idea ... intended to be blunt weapon, not practical but suits certain purposes ...not in the interest of We the People .. is my opinion.
Thank you for this conversation. I am beginning this book and I really love the sense of creativity and innovation of the Church it describes.
Excellent conversations!
Dear! This is an excellent conversation and podcast, but the on-and off drawn-out sound tested my wit:). Dr. Jason Baxter is alike eloquent and delightful! As I continued listening, I was gladly compensated and pleased by the quality of your content!!!
"We create God in our own image..."
Thank you for this, Bob. Amy's book and voice is crucial in addressing views that are ignorantly or intentionally harmful, especially in a Christian or church environment. If only people are open to learning, there is much to learn from those who have disabilities.
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Did you know that WWII Black veterans and descendants are STILL not allowed GI bill benefits? Can you imagine teaching WWII and GI Bill and not mentioning this. There is a bill in the house and senate to change this. Authentic CRT seeks to uncover and remedy these inequities caused by systemic racism…
This talk is absolutely wonderful! I have never conceptualized the story this way, and I truly appreciate your research and your placing of the story in context.
Can't wait to get the book!
Thank you for this interview. I will most definitely be purchasing this book. Depression cannot separate us from the love of God🙌
I can listen to Michael Card sing or speak all day long. Wonderful! Thanks for sharing!